HALL, Wilton Earle, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Starr, Hall Township,
Anderson County, S.C., March 11, 1901; attended the public schools and Furman
University, Greenville, S.C.; founded a morning newspaper in Anderson, S.C., in
1924, and in 1929 acquired an evening newspaper; in 1935 established a radio
station; chairman of the South Carolina Planning Board 1934-1938; appointed on
November 20, 1944, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Ellison D. Smith and served from November 20,
1944, to January 3, 1945; was not a candidate for election to the full term;
resumed the newspaper publishing business as publisher of the Anderson
Independent and Daily Mail of South Carolina; founder of a television station
and owner of two radio stations; publisher of Quote Magazine; resided in
Anderson, S.C. where he died February 25, 1980; interment in a mausoleum,
Forest Lawn Memorial Park.